Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

Observe the reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

Each breath is a new beginning, a fresh opportunity to awaken.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

The mind is the forerunner of all things. Our present life is the result of our past thoughts, and our future life will be the result of our present thoughts.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

In true vipassana practice, there is no room for likes and dislikes. There is only observation.

Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

Meditation is not an escape from reality but a way to understand reality as it truly is.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

When I run from suffering, it follows me. When I face suffering with equanimity, it runs from me.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.